Ciel in wonderland dress bjd
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The Tenshi-no-sato offer a number of services, including a repair service. Here, fans can drink tea in the company of their dolls, chat with fellow collectors, take pictures of each other's dolls in the nearby park. In Kyoto, Volks opened the Tenshi-no-sato (天使の里 “Angel's Homeland”), a museum which displays rare models, as well as functioning as a hub for fans. The community surrounding BJD and SD is fairly interesting as well. A standard version goes for about 500 euros. Some examples are Evangelion's Ayanami Rei, Saber Alter from Fate/Stay Night, and the well known Hatsune Miku, for which the exclusive Snow Miku edition, or just the swg+outfit set is available. Many of the available characters come from shōnen/seinen manga or ero-games, and feature prominent breasts and nipples. Hatsune Miku Super Dollfie (standard, Snow Miku and Senbonzakura)Ī line aside is Dollfie Dream (DD), vinyl and resin dolls designed for a male audience. Because of their high production value, some pieces (or the intact mold for a head, or an outfit) can be worth hundreds of thousands of yen in the second hand market. The price tag for a brand new SD varies from 35-40 thousand yen (about 300 euros) for an unassembled starter kit, all the way to 150 thousand yen (about 1200 euros) for limited runs or exclusive models. Suigintō Super Dollfie from the Rozen Maiden anime, priced at 102.900 yen Naoto, as well as anime like Rozen Maiden (whose protagonists are bjd-like dolls), Maria-sama ga Miteru or Gosick. There have also been collaborations with many lolita fashion brands, such as Baby, The Stars Shine Bright or H. Height varies from 26,5cm for the YoSD to 65cm for the SD17.įrom 2003 Volks expanded into overseas markets, opening its Tenshi-no-sumika (Angel Residences) all over the world, from Korea to he States. These dolls are still a bestseller, and are available as aseemble-requiring kits. Inspired by sculptor Enku Akihiro, Volks decided to produce a doll line targeted to women: the Super Dollfie. The first modern bjd were produced by Japanese maker Volks, better known back then for its garage kits and figure. Still, today the world of bjd (acronym for ball joint dolls) is tightly associated with Asian dolls and collecting, mostly due to the trend finding its roots about twenty years ago in Japan, Korea and China. In this article we will discuss the first type.īall Joint Dolls, as an invention, are neither modern nor Japanese. We should make a first distinction between two very different kinds of dolls: ball joint dolls and fashion dolls.
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From now on we will focus on a particular sector dominated by women collectors, little known but still multi-faceted and fascinating: dolls collecting. In past articles we discussed some of the otaku world's most relevant marketing and collecting phenomena, especially in relation to anime, manga, video games and figure.